Here’s the bill that Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced. Its title is “Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023” – and so I would guess it might be unconstitutional because of its race specificity: (a) In General.—A person engages in … Continue reading →
In the comments to Saturday’s post about some AI at Blogger flagging a 17-year-old piece of mine for very very little, and attaching a warning to it, one commenter wrote that Blogger is the least of his concerns and the … Continue reading →
I got a little note from Blogger recently – that is, from the entity that hosts my original blog at Blogspot, which apparently is still accessible. I assume the missive is not from a sentient being, but rather from some … Continue reading →
Discussion and links here. An excerpt: Ironically, the documents tweeted by Taibbi also indicated that the increasingly cozy relationship between agencies in the federal government and Twitter made some on the Twitter side uncomfortable in part because they were starting … Continue reading →
I’ve been hearing that we need a new Church Committee. Let’s take a look at the old one. The Church Committee in Congress was bipartisan. In fact, the committee was set up in the Senate in January of 1975 by … Continue reading →
The GOP is on the warpath, and the victim is the FBI. Why are the Republicans doing this to those agency innocents, fighting for truth, justice, and the American Way? It’s because of Trump, of course: The attacks on [FBI … Continue reading →
Here’s the Twitter thread itself. I don’t really need to reinvent the wheel and do a blow-by-blow analysis. I’ll just link to this, this, and this. From the latter: In its pathetic attempt to meet the Biden administration’s demands while … Continue reading →
This one’s about COVID information censorship. The link to the twitter thread itself is here. I may write more about this later tonight or perhaps tomorrow. Right now I’ll add that the clampdown was so widespread and so unreasonable even … Continue reading →
Here’s another recommended article by VDH. There’s so much in it that it’s hard to select just a few quotes, but here are some of special interest to me: The FBI is now, tragically, in freefall. The public is at … Continue reading →
The FBI says that the Twitter files simply reveal business as usual, no big deal: The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our tradition, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This post is based on Twitter files #7, which can be found at this link. I suggest you read it, as well as this, which discusses the fact that Twitter was paid by the FBI for its services.] First, … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”] Alan Dershowitz opines on the Jan 6 committee’s recommendation that the DOJ indict Trump: “In my view, it’s clearly unconstitutional,” Dershowitz said on Monday’s edition of the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “Article … Continue reading →